Haldane Martin designs Mad Giant Beer brewery and restaurant in Johannesburg
In 2016 Haldane Martin launched an iconic new concept interior for South African craft beer Mad Giant. The new brewery, tasting room and restaurant in downtown Johannesburg is a space that embodies the free-spirited and adventurous mindset of the brand.
Through the interior and bespoke furniture design, Haldane Martin combines a DIY aesthetic with a quirky, child-like playfulness. Playing with scale and industrial elements – from over-sized Meccano furnishings to a giant yeti standing above the bar to burnt red exposed steel trusses – the design brings to life the Mad Giant brand's renegade ideology.
In this video Haldane Martin shares insight into his design concept behind the innovative interior and the furniture that was designed especially for Mad Giant. Mad Giant owner Eben Uys tells us about his vision for the brand as “the small guy brave enough to dream big and do something crazy”. The chemical engineer turned craft beer producer believes in standing out and doing something different.
Head chef at the Mad Giant restaurant (Urbanologi) Angelo Scirocco talks about the flavours and inspiration behind his cuisine that was designed to complement Mad Giant beer. His tapas-styled dishes combine Asian street food flavours and cooking techniques over open flames with gastronomical plating. Fresh natural ingredients, attention to detail in cooking and plating, and an experimental and constantly evolving menu reinforce the connection between Urbanologi’s cuisine and Mad Giant’s beer.
Pioneering new flavours and iconic design, Mad Giant celebrates a brave creative spirit that speaks to the urban regeneration burgeoning in Johannesburg’s inner-city. It is a space that highlights the transformation of an area once lost to detriment, which is once again being revived to its former glory.
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Interior design by Haldane Martin
Furniture design by Haldane Martin
Videography by Lucid Media
Content direction by One Day Company
Filming and editing by Kyle Goulden
Interviews by Sarah Jayne Fell
Photography by Micky Hoyle
An Afternoon With The Mad Giant At Urbanologi
An avant-garde restaurant, located inside a craft beer brewery in the heart of old Joburg and with a 4,9 rating on Zomato. I was sold and needed to experience the delights of Urbanologi at 1 Fox The Sheds.
With the cuisine described at urban garde and a brewer with the passion to match, I met up with Eben Uys, owner of Mad Giant and Urbanologi. Street food meets Asian fusion on the rather extensive menu offering, everything from crispy dropped black pepper pork belly with tamarind dressing, butternut puree, cucumber and smoked peanuts to venison tataki with smoked amasi labneh, beetroot pesto and pickled candy beetroot to sweet potato with buffalo milk labneh and puffed nori cracker.
But street food is made to be shared so five of my friends joined me for an afternoon of foodie delight. And we got to celebrate a rather special occasion for one of them.
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Mad Giant Urban Legend IPA | Joburg's Favourite IPA?
I tasted the Urban Legend IPA from Mad Giant and it's fantastic! Ticks all the boxes, no complaints. Solid beer.
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Mad Giant Killer Hop - Beer, Bar & Beyond Episode Fourteen
In this episode I taste the Killer Hop Pale Ale from Johannesburg's most impressive brewery.
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Ready for a beer? these are 10 of the best bars in johannesburg
Ready for a beer? these are 10 of the best bars in johannesburg.
(Mad Giant / Facebook) Christmas comes but once a year. So for those other 364 days, you’ll need to find a better place to drink than next to the in-laws’ Christmas tree. That’s why we’re looking at some of the best bars in Johannesburg with this list. It’s around this time where we also get the ‘ne...
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Industrial gas supplier showcases commitment to craft beer market
Industrial gas supplier Air Products hosted media at Johannesburg-based restaurant and microbrewery Mad Giant in June, where it showcased its support for South Africa’s burgeoning craft beer industry.
Entrepreneur Eben Uys - CEOwise with Dan Newman #25
We interview entrepreneur Eben Uys, Co-founder and CEO of Mad Giant, a Brewery in the heart of Johannesburg, South Africa. Eben brings new life to craft beer and has made his brewery and restaurant Urbanologi, a destination hub.
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They Forgot These Gold Mines!
Abandoned Mines
Mining has been around for ages. Like, the oldest mine is said to be around 43,000 years old! Mining is the process of digging into the earth to find minerals such as coal, gold, diamond or any other mineral that humans find valuable. Since mining has been around for so long and people will dig just about anywhere to find something valuable, it’s not a surprise that many mines become abandoned or forgotten.
Mad Giant Beer interior design by Haldane Martin
Mad Giant Beer has a funky new brewery and restaurant in downtown Johannesburg designed by Haldane Martin.
The design concept for Mad Giant plays with scale, creating furniture and lighting from over-sized construction toy kits, using massive i-beams for basins and exposed burnt red steel ceiling trusses – not to mention a giant yeti that takes centre stage behind the main bar – which is shaped like a giant bottle top. The design is like a child's dream come true, or is it like a giant playground for grownups?
Ultimately the Mad Giant space reinforces the brand's ideology of dreaming big and not being afraid to do something crazy. DIY, renegade but perfectionist down to the last detail, this is iconic design and craft beer at their finest.
Baboon Wars | South Africa
Broadcast: 6 February 2011 on Sunday Night, Seven Network, Australia.
Tim travels to Cape Town in South Africa to cover a neighbourhood dispute of a different kind. On one side, the baboon residents who have been there for a million years ... on the other, their human neighbours who are moving in. It all started when people began building on prime land belonging to the local baboons and naturally the primates took it very personally responding with a crime wave of carjackings, muggings and home invasions. This is the real-life version of planet of the apes!
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6 Historic Mad Gold Rushes
Stumbling upon gold can chance people’s life, like the California historic gold rush or even the Bitcoin boom. Here are some of the most historic gold rushes ever.
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Historic Gold Rushes
Some people dream of winning it big in the lottery but what if you accidentally stumbled upon a large amount of wealth? It just so happens that in our past and even in our present with cryptocurrency like bitcoin people still go bonkers over the idea of striking it rich easily so join us as we check out some historic gold rushes that ended up changing people's lives for better or worse:
The California Gold Rush
In 1848, it would be a carpenter from New Jersey that accidentally created one of the greatest gold rushes in American history. His name was James Wilson Marshall and he found flakes of gold in the American River at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Coloma, California.
Witswatersrand Gold Rush
One of the most popular locations to source gold still today was discovered long before 1886 by Africans and Natives who were already mining for the precious mineral, but it was Witswaterrand that would play a key part in the Mineral Revolution and it also led to the establishment of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Black Hills Gold Rush
The land was technically owned by the Sioux at the time in 1874 but the first arrivals of men seeking gold were led by George Armstrong Custer. He brought along with him 1000 men to investigate the rumors that there was gold in present-day Custer, South Dakota.
Georgia Gold Rush of 1829
The George Gold Rush of 1829 at the time was known as Cherokee Nation, but it began to be flooded by thousands of prospectors hoping to find gold in the area. There were around four thousand miners working along the Yahoola Creek alone and the numbers only grew over time.
Pike's Peak or Bust!
The Pike's Peak or Bust! Slogan could be seen on carriages coming into town and it actually became the slogan in reference to the early prospectors who came to the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in search of gold.
Bitcoin Boom
We have come quite a long way from the time when prospectors and miners had to get lucky and search in rocky regions in order to strike it rich, but now with the Bitcoin Boom things aren't so far from our past.
Daniel Naude and President Ramaphosa bring you The Cattle of The Ages | FULL FEATURE
Photographer Daniel Naude and President Cyril Ramaphosa collaborate on a stunning book about Africa’s Ankole cattle.
Johannesburg’s Everard Read Gallery is hosting Daniel Naude’s latest exhibition, A Decade of Seeing. It charts his journey from photographic portraits of dogs and sacred cattle to wild Bower birds and was captured over a decade of travel across three continents. His coffee table book documents the Africanis dog, their relationship to South Africa and their place in our landscape.
From dogs, this Stellenbosch arts graduate moved onto photographing cattle in societies where the animals are revered as more than livestock after which, he chronicled birdlife Down Under.
In Madagascar, Daniel captured the Zebu cattle as part of the Bara people’s ancestor worship; in India, his photographs depicted how the Brahmin see cows as divine and in Uganda, how they are central to Bahima culture.
The collaboration with President Ramaphosa has its roots in the story of how the President’s father, Samuel Mundzhedzi Ramaphosa, had to leave behind his cattle herd in Venda to find work in Johannesburg. It weakened his links with his ancestral origins and this book is part of restoring that lost legacy.
It took President Ramaphosa years to import Ankole from Uganda with correct quarantine and special breeding requirements but they are now established in the country. Daniel has gone all the way with these cattle and owns a small herd himself. Beyond photography, the survival of the Ankole is at the heart of preserving the indigenous African values and symbolism so important to this artist.
Daniel’s photographs hang in the renowned J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and he is proud to have worked with the President on the even bigger, cultural picture of these cattle.
Jack Black Butcher Block Pale Ale - South African Craft Beer Tasting
I tasted the Jack Black Butcher Block Pale Ale and wow! I'm impressed!
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Deadliest Cats | Vaal Dam Barbel (Catfish) Fishing | Fish The Sea
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Deadliest Cats - The Bait Edition. Join us for a weekend Vaal Dam fishing trip as we target Barbel (Sharptooth Catfish) at Tago on the Vaal Dam. Featuring Gavin Erwin from Fish Art, Sean Bisset, Jason Macintosh and Gareth Roocroft. The guys get stuck into some nice Barbel on light tackle and Gavin catches a beast of a fish on a full carp head. There were a lot of smaller Barbel around, but please subscribe and stay tuned for Deadliest Cats - Where we catch big barbel on lures, fish of over 15 kilograms!
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Long Beach Deep Water Porter - South African Craft Beer Tasting
I taste the Long Beach Brewery Deep Water Porter, a dark and tasty Porter from Cape Town.
As part of my craft beer journey I decided I wanted to review more dark beers and I thought a porter would be a great place to start.
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